THIS TOO SHALL PASS

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

2 Corinthians 4: 17-18; Eccl 1:9 

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

Ecc 1:9-11  

That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. 

Ecc 1:10  Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been in days of old, which were before us. 

Ecc 1:11  There is no memory of former things, and also no memory of after things which shall be; for neither shall be a remembrance of them with those who will be at the afterwards. 

Everything that happens or is happening has already been planned by God

Everything that is happening has happened before 

EG, 

1. THE PLAGUE OF JUSTINIAN in 541 CE. Plague-ridden fleas hitched a ride on the black rats that snacked on the grain. 

The plague killed an estimated 30 to 50 million people, perhaps half of the world’s population.

“People had no real understanding of how to fight it other than trying to avoid sick people,” says Thomas Mockaitis, a history professor at DePaul University. “As to how the plague ended, the best guess is that the majority of people in a pandemic somehow survive, and those who survive have immunity.”

2. THE BLACK DEATH, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 200 million lives in just four years.

As for how to stop the disease, people still had no scientific understanding of contagion, says Mockaitis, but they knew that it had something to do with proximity. That’s why forward-thinking officials in Venetian-controlled port city of Ragusa decided to keep newly arrived sailors in isolation until they could prove they weren’t sick.

Sailors were held on their ships for 30 days, which became known in Venetian law as a trentino. As time went on, the Venetians increased the forced isolation to 40 days or a quarantino, the origin of the word quarantine.

3. THE GREAT PLAGUE of 1665 was the last and one of the worst of the centuries-long outbreaks, killing 100,000 Londoners in just seven months. All public entertainment was banned and victims were forcibly shut in their homes to prevent the spread of the disease. Red crosses were painted on their doors along with a plea for forgiveness: “Lord have mercy upon us.”

As cruel as it was to shut up the sick in their homes and bury the dead in mass graves, it may have been the only way to bring the last great plague outbreak to an end.

4. SMALLPOX “There hasn’t been a kill off in human history to match what happened in the Americas—90 to 95 percent of the indigenous population wiped out over a century,” says Mockaitis. “Mexico goes from 11 million people pre-conquest to one million.”

Centuries later, smallpox became the first virus epidemic to be ended by a vaccine. In the late 18th-century, a British doctor named Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids infected with a milder virus called cowpox seemed immune to smallpox. Jenner, therefore, inoculated his gardener’s 9-year-old son with cowpox and then exposed him to the smallpox virus with no ill effect. 

In 1980 the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been completely eradicated from the face of the Earth.

5. CHOLERA. In the 19th century, came cholera. While cholera has largely been eradicated in developed countries, it’s still a persistent killer in third-world countries lacking adequate sewage treatment and access to clean drinking water. 

6. OTHERS LIKE;

Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS

Ebola Fever

All these Diseases have been subdued

Fear not. God is with His children.

Nothing bad will happen to you

In the same way, COVID-19 / Coronavirus will be subdued

By Rev. Kofi Okyiri Appianing